Samsung to release two Note 4 models, one with a curved display?

A few hours ago I posted about a report from SamMobile , saying that the Galaxy Note 4 will sport a QHD AMOLED display. I promised that we’re gonna see more rumors regarding this phone, but I didn’t think it was so quick. Samsung Galaxy Round The Korea Times reports that Samsung will unveil their new Phablet at the IFA 2014 conference (September 5). They will actual show two Note 4 variants – one with a regular display, and another with a curved one. Read more about Samsung to release two Note 4 models, one with a curved display?

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Wisechip , the Taiwan-based PMOLED maker, demonstrated its latest display panels and prototypes at the TADF Workshop last week in Fukuoka, Japan. This was an impressive display and a great chance to experience the latest PMOLEDs displays from Wisechip. So first up we have the company’s transparent PMOLED. This is a 4.1″ (106×37.9 mm) segmented T-OLED specifically aimed for automotive HUD applications. The display has 4 colors (red, orange, green and blue) and offers a typical brightness of 800 nits (max is 1,500 nits). According to Wisechip the display will soon hit the market for a specific automotive partner. Read more about Wisechip shows its latest PMOLEDs at the TADF Workshop in Japan

A few days ago LG Display disclosed its financial results for Q2 2017 and announced a large OLED investment plan to increase capacity for both OLED TVs and small-sized flexible OLEDs . During its investor conference call, LG Display disclosed that it plans to finance some of the capacity increase through strategic partnerships such as customer commitments. In the past months we heard reports that both Apple and Google are in talks with LGD regarding an investment to secure OLED capacity. It seems likely that LGD now verified these reports – but the investments are probably not finalized yet. Read more about LGD confirms it is in talks with strategic partners to fund its aggressive OLED expansion plans

DSCC expects the OLED market to rapidly grow in the near future, as AMOLED production capacity will increase at a CAGR of 41% from 2016 (5.3 million square meters) to 2021 (29.4 million square meters). OLED revenues will reach $21 billion in 2017 (a rise of 46% compared to 2016) and will reach $46 billion in 2021. Smartphones are still the largest OLED application by far – with a 86% market share (revenues) in 2017 and 81% in 2021. The second largest application by revenues are OLED TVs, and other applications follow with a small market share – but one that will increase as supply looses in the future. If we look at shipments, then smartphones acount for 94% of OLED shipments, and the 2nd and 3rd applications are VR headsets and smart watches. OLED TV shipments will reach 6.5 million in 2021 (rising at a CAGR of 49% from 2016 to 2021). Read more about DSCC: OLED revenues to reach $21 billion in 2017, will rise to $46 billion in 2021

In March 2016 the EU launched the PI-SCALE with an aim to create a European-wide pilot line which will enable companies of all sizes to quickly and cost effectively test and scale up their flexible OLED lighting concepts and turn them into market ready products. PI-SCALE members recently managed to produce 10-meter long OLED lighting panels . The PI-SCALE project now launched a flexible OLED design competition, calling out designers to propose OLED lighting and signage applications that highlight the special features of OLED technology: foldable, twistable, bendable, conformable, transparency, large area illumination. Read more about The EU PI-SCALE project launches a flexible OLED lighting design competition

IHS estimates that flexible OLED production capacity is set to increase from 1.5 million square meters to 20.1 million square meters between 2016 and 2020. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 91%! IHS says that almost all new small-sized displays OLED capacity added in the future will be used to produce flexible OLEDs, which will grow the market share of flexible OLEDs for mobile applications from 28% today to 80% by 2020. In the years between 2016 to 2020, OLED producers in China, Korea and Japan will build the equivalent of 46 new flexible AMOLED fabs (each with 30,000 monthly substrates). Read more about IHS: flexible OLED capacity to almost double each year until 2020, leading to potential oversupply

ETNews reports that Cynora is finalizing its latest financing round, with aims to raise €15 million. LG Display will participate in the round, investing $9 million, and Samsung Display is also considering a similar sized investment. Cynora, based in Germany, is developing OLED emitters, and has recently announced its blue TADF OLED performance . Cynora’s new blue achieves a 15% EQE at 1000 cd/m² with an emission peak at < 470 nm and a LT97 of > 90 hours (at 700 cd/m²) on a device level. Cynora says that it is very confident that it can commercialize its first highly efficient blue emitter by the end of this year, as planned . Read more about Reports suggest LGD and SDC to participate in Cynora's latest financing round

According to reports from Korea, Apple ordered a 2.5-Gen OLED evaporation (CVD) equipment from Sunic System in order to build an OLED pilot line in Taiwan. The report suggests that Apple wants to develop in-house OLED technologies which will allow it to reduce its reliance on Samsung Display. 6-Gen Sunic deposition system It is interesting to hear how Apple is increasing its involvement with display technologies. We know that Apple is also interested and involved with Micro-LED displays, and earlier reports suggested that Apple actually aims to produce sample displays in a pilot R&D line later this year . Read more about Apple to setup a 2.5-Gen OLED R&D production line in Taiwan

UBI Research estimates that the AR and VR market will grow to 96.4 million units and $58.7 billion in device sales by 2021. In 2017, 17 million units will ship generating $3.9 billion in revenues. From 2017 to 2021 the market will grow with a CARG of 54%. According to UBI, the VR and AR market was split almost 50% between OLED and other technology displays, with 2.6 million OLEDs shipped in 2017. Most next generation VR headsets will use OLED displays, however, and by 2021 OLEDs will occupy 80% of the market. Read more about UBI sees fast growth ahead for VR and AR OLED displays

CE Week held its 13th annual TV shootout, and for the fourth times in a row, LG’s OLED TV won. LG’s OLEDE7 TV (65″) won in all categories – and was crowned ‘King of TV’ in the Shootout. For the first time ever the shootout included an OLED TV from another maker – Sony’s A1E . The Sony TV came close to LG’s OLED and won an honorary mention. LG’s OLEDE7 TVs cost $3,500 for the 55″ model and $4,800 for the 65″ model . Sony’s A1-E Bravia OLED TVs cost $3,999 (55″) , $5,499 (65″) and $19,999 (77″) . Read more about LG's OLED TV wins CE Week's annual TV shootout for the fourth time in a row

According to the Korea Herald, Samsung decided to “play it safe” with its next year’s flagship phone and it will adopt the same basic design as in its current Galaxy S8 . The 2018 Galaxy S9 will use a 5.8″ Infinity curved Super AMOLED display (and the S9+ will use a 6.2″ display as used in the S8+). It is likely that even if this report is true, Samsung Display will use an enhanced display. Even though the display used in the GS8 was “the best mobile display ever” according to DisplayMate – there is still room for improvement, for example higher resolution (good for VR), better efficiency or a larger color gamut. Read more about Samsung's 2018 Galaxy S9 will use the same display size as the S8